Is the new SAP offering up to the challenge of agility and digital transformation? After a whole day analyst event, we at PAC believe it is. But are the customers ready to jump into this new way of running their IT and their business? That’s not so sure. Hence the importance of the partner ecosystem, which will play a key role in the next ...

Last week I visited the biggest IT fair in Europe, the CeBIT in Hannover. This year the partner country was China, and as often with China, they do it at a very large scale: There were 612 exhibitor companies from China! The CeBIT organizers are very satisfied with this year’s exhibition thanks to China, while they have to cope with ...

Clearly, SAP goes full steam ahead in the direction of HANA and S/4HANA. However, after having mastered the migration from Enterprise Suite 7 to S/4HANA over the coming two or three years, with limited growth opportunities with the global 3000 enterprises and slowly approaching market saturation, SAP has to look for future growth potential ...

TCS Assurance services unit is the enterprise testing arm of TCS with over 28,000 testing professionals. Assurance services has setup over 65 test centers of excellence globally and provides a host of Test Consulting and Advisory Services, Test Services Implementation, and Managed Services to over 500 clients across the world. As a next step ...

Last Tuesday I travelled to Frankfurt to meet Hu Yoshida, the CTO of Hitachi Data System, the IT part of the more than 100 years old Japanese conglomerate. Hitachi is a good example of those industrial conglomerates from Imperial times, or Zaibatsu, which make Japan a global power.

A current study of Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) confirms that connected car solutions have already left their visionary status and are on their way to become one of the major business drivers for the automotive industry in Europe. Almost every automotive company in Europe (98%) is currently designing and developing connected car solutions ...

Security has always been a fundamental requirement for IT. Ever since the distribution of the Internet as a mass communication channel, there had been security risks to individuals and companies likewise. This risk potential gets even multiplied when there are not humans but machines being connected to each other. Security is the backbone ...

The question "What comes after 'what comes next'?" is not only interesting for industry analysts. In case of SAP HANA, we have an answer to this question. First of all, we expect HANA to be successful. However, behind the success and behind the marketing drums for HANA and S/4HANA, SAP's portfolio even allows a further step. If you listen ...